Cleaning device for wells.



'the agitator 10 stirs up thel sand and other detritus rwhich may collect in the sc reen and the sameis carried by the water current lfip'out of the bore and delivered to the surace. f

As the device is lowered in theI Screen from time to time the water pressure may be cut ofi' or lowered so as to decrease the fricl section.

2.' A device .ofthe character described including a perforated pipe section, a sur" rounding sleeveformed of fiexible material attached at its respective ends to the corresponding-ends of said section, a perforated lhood attached to one end of said section, and i av rotatable agitator carried by said hood.

3. AA device of the character described incluvding a perforated pipe section, a surrounding sleeve formed of iexible material attached at its respective ends to the corresponding ends of said sectionya perforated hood carried by one end of said section, an

agitator, 'a turbine within the hood and operatively connected with said agitator and rotating the same.

4;. A device of the character described including a perforated pipe section, a surrounding sleeve formed of flexible material attached at its respective ends to Vthe corresponding ends of said section, a perforated hood carried by one end of said section, an agitator, a sha-ft rotatably mounted in suitable bearings in the hood to the outer end `of which the agitator is fixed and a turbine fixed upon said shaft within the hood and rotated by the water passing through said hood. y Y 'n p 5. A device of the character described in' cluding a perforated pipe section, a surrounding sleeve formed of fiexible material attachedl at its respective ends tol the correspending ends of said section, a perforated hood carried by one end of said section, an agitator, a shaft rotatably mounted in 'suitable bearings in the hood to the outer end of which vthe agitator is fixed and a plurality of turbines fixed upon said shaft within the hood and rotated by ,the water passing through said hood.

' In testimony whereof I have signed my name to thisv specification in the presence of a subscribing witness. 1

navn) A. GARDEN."

l Witness: i

A. C. SPRINGFIELD. 

